I know this is the wrong place to post this. Please accept my apologies. I'm hoping someone here will know how to help me. Suddenly, I'm at risk of losing 22 years of work that I started with Nisus 1.0 in 1989. I have three OS X machines, but use an OS 9.2.2 machine for my work, which is teaching physics. My menu bar is corrupted, and NW 6.5 crashes a lot. This just started today. I know about rebuilding the desktop, zapping the PRAM, turning off extensions, etc. but I think I'm going to have to reinstall NW 6.5. My workspace with NW 6.5 is heavily customized with hot keys, macros, all kinds of stuff that I do not want to lose. Can anyone help me with this? Please email me at SRBevans@AOL.com if so.

You need to ensure the symbol font and equation fonts are kept in a safeplace, as a backup, else you have to do a nisus reinstall to put themon. If you don't have them extracted, rename the nisus folder to say xnisus, and just do a custom minimum install of the fonts, when you haveinstalled the right ones, rename the old folder back to how it was, anddelete the newer folder, do a desktop rebuild, but next read this its important.

after any change to font, you need to delete the registry documentcontaining the list of fonts you have, its probably not too essential onthis matter as the symbol font will be replaced by a symbol font.

If you look at the symbol briefcase instead of saying apple or such itsay na, the actual file that makes all the difference is the symbolfont, not any of the others, ie symbol 12 14 etc in sizes of fonts inthe briefcase, its the first file.

If you don't trash the font registry document, which is called Nisusfont cache, in the preferences folder, and the font prefs of all otherword doc programs word font cache, adobe font.ls appleworks fonts clarisfonts uncle tom cobblys old font from his custom bespoke programcompany, you get program crashing.

There is more, read on, opening a document too large, make sure thememory allocation, ie get info, scroll down to memory in that window andgive it some beefy size, you get troubs.

Here is one the help file, nisus installs help in the help folder, Idiscovered there is javascript in the instructions, as they are designedfor a browser, truth they should be for the help system, the help systemof the mac can cause problems, the help viewer, which lives in a folderof that name should have a meaty amount of memory, there are two ofthree versions, it gets worse the nearer to mac os x you get, help usesan index, in that index you got it, there get javascripts, and then woebuddy a search in help stalls the whole system down requiring a controlquit form the help viewer, you know the escape sequence.

In the prefs folder apple help viewer prefs resides a sh#!. . . whocares trash the whole of that folder, if there nothing of use in it, openthe help folder in the system folder, trash the file help center helpcentre you know we get a bit funny about that, one of them will bethere, get shot of it, then select help from the main system, the filecomes back complete with all the help files you have, current in thesystem, the apple help prefs get returned afresh, here the trouble iscaused by a file help accessor something of that kind of name, sometimesits carbon compliant, sometimes its not, and carbon ain't compatiblewith normal mac systems, carbon versions differ and well a whole hogsworth of agro occurs.

Do nisus installs after word, anything to do with gates os you know itsgonna stall, dont believe word, believe apple and nisus.

Maclink comes before nisus, you want to trash maclink import translatorprefs and export translator prefs, you want to trash xtnd prefs from thefolder, dont worry they come back when you run appleworks or the firstwp package that requires them. to get a full portfolio of translatorsyou want to use nisus first, after trashing those, run it, and it willgather and remake the xtnd prefs file on your current selection oftranslators installed on your system.

Then run appleworks if you have it or something requiring maclinktranslation. Maclink prefs files come back then.

Gates on 97 released a patch, I found none of the wordperfect mstranslators that only work with word 5.1 and 6 functioned, ms wordcrashed regular, on opening and saving those doc types. the problemthere is that of calling the dedicated translator and finding thatmaclink overides them, or word overides maclinks here the problemrelates to the embedding prefs in the prefs folder, you cant just trashit, it comes as part of the word install, you have to back it up, losingit, causes failure to read equations and translations, maclink patchesthis file, or word patches this file, so word only sees and uses wordsown translators, thats gates all over, you paid for the full monty, buthe ain't letting it work with his part of the deal, a pregnant fishcomes to mind here!

I spent hours on the conflict, then came the batch processor, as a extrathat enables the 97 and word 6 import parts of word to read such fileson word, here we look for a file called windows metafile, in the old 5.1install, the metafile works well with the translators except wordperfect5 but after the batch install, the metafile does strange things, Ipulled a later metafile from box of old parts of a segmented word 6package, and the windows metafile 1.2.1 not 1.2.0 made all thedifference to functioning with the word 6 translators the batchprocessing translators and the word 97 translators making themcompatible to and with the older translators. In that install, ensuremost of the ms transltors have long version numbers, ie not v1.0 etc, heseems to have changed things somewhere along the way, and the older v1seem incompatible with the newer longer ones you may have.

If you can get shot of word, its a blessing to do so, I post message andletters as graphics and pictures, or html, and kiss the ass oftranslation troubles right out down the road.

The more you get away from microsoft, the better things are, believe me,I knew those sh#! at school, they were always the psudueoprofessionals, always the obstruction.

You get desperate, stick the whole disk on a zip disk sort the systemout, and put it back after!

I think I covered everything?

Shall I just suggest, a quicktime refresh install, just to bless thebeast, and its good bye all woes and griefs, hello nisus!º

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